Improved kindling-wood



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. WESLEY WEBBER, lOF NEW YORK, N. Y.

umPRovl-:lzv KINDLING-wooo.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 93,775, dated August 17, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. WESLEY WEBBER, of the city of New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented a new improvement consisting of accompanying or fastening one or more fire-lighters to each bundle ofthe common article of manufacture known as Bundle or Kindling Wood, (see drawing marked 0,) having for its object to facilitate the lighting or ignition, by means of the said fire-lighter, of wood, thus saving the consumer the labor of chopping the wood in fine pieces.

The nature of my invention or improvement consists in accompanying or fastening one or more fire-lighters A in a suitable manner, or

to the string B of the bundle of the common article of manufacture known as bundle or kindling wood, marked C in the accompanying drawing.

What I claim as my invention, and desire of a combustible material, such as rosin or` tar, the ingredients of which I do not claim', my invention consisting wholly of accompanying or fastening a fire-lighter, A, to or with the bundle, or at the string B of the bundle of the common article of manufacture known as bundle or kindling wood.

J. WESLEY WEBEEE.

Witnesses GEO. W. GIBSON, ALBERT SOHBADEE. 

